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Pakistan

About two-thirds of the rural population of Pakistan lives in nucleated villages or
hamlets (i.e., in compact groups of dwellings). Sometimes, as is generally the case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the houses are placed in a ring with windowless outer walls, so that each complex resembles a protected fortress with a few guarded entrances. Dispersed habitation patterns in the form of isolated single...

Polynesia

Two major settlement patterns were used in Polynesia prior to European contact:
hamlets and villages. Their origin and development reflected factors such as social organization, the distribution of food-crop resources, and defense considerations.

United Kingdom

...(clusters or
hamlets), and occasional villages and small towns still characterize much of the highland zone. Some nucleated settlement patterns, however, have undergone radical change. In Wales
hamlets began to disappear in the late Middle Ages through the related processes of consolidation and enclosure that accompanied the decline in the size of the bond (feudally tied) population. The...